61.   Farthing repeated his plea in a talk at the meeting Thursday.

62.   GM continues to negotiate with the UAW in a round of strike talks at a Pontiac, Michigan truck plant.

63.   Gordon has given the Red Sox a dose of happy talk at a time of year when most conversation about the club is talk-radio shrill.

64.   Having the peace talks at Wright-Pat has made the event real to them.

65.   He held four hours of talks at NATO headquarters.

66.   He expressed confidence that both regions would act in concert on some issues during the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization this fall.

67.   He said the companies had sporadic talks last spring but Hasbro broke off the talks at the end of June because of its antitrust concerns.

68.   He will then travel to Frankfurt, for talks at the Bundesbank and the European Monetary Institute.

69.   He put the odds on success for resumed budget talks at no more than one in five.

70.   Here too Powell deftly met his challenge by offering to hold talks at the ministerial level, forcing Sharon to stay in the game and preventing an Arab boycott.